Birth Control

The war on Planned Parenthood is in full swing in Texas. Amid an ongoing battle about Planned Parenthood’s participation in the State Medicaid program – Texas officials cut funding to Planned Parenthood…

Eugene Reznik via Hopes&Fears: “On Abortion & Contraception History,” the first chapter from photographer Laia Abril’s long-term project On Misogyny, published by Hopes&Fears for the first time, pictures centuries of gadgets meant…

via Vox: Since 2007, a program in St. Louis has offered teenagers free access to all types of birth control. They can choose pills, intra-uterine devices or any other FDA-approved contraceptive. These…

At the national level, the Republicans seem to be going for broke by shifting even further rightward on social issues. The Obama for America tumblr imagines what your birth control coverage permission…

Wondering why most people find the 1950s-style social conservatism of the Republican Party incredibly creepy? As the GOP party mounts a national campaign to roll back access to contraception, Foster Friess, a 71-year-old billionaire businessman who is Rick Santorum’s biggest financial backer, unveils his jaw-dropping joke prescription for women’s (or rather “gals’ “) healthcare on MSNBC:

Apple’s new iPhone 4S has made waves for its voice-commanded virtual assistant, personified as “Siri”. However, users have noticed that Siri seems to have a blackout concerning certain topics — is Apple…

While the U.S. progress lags, Indonesia readies a male contraception pill. Patrick Winn writes on Global Post: On the remote Indonesian island of Papua, tribesmen have long noticed the curious effect of…

From Green Technology Daily an article arguing that global access to birth control is the most effect and essential “green technology”: Are condoms and birth control pills more cost effective than windmills…